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Speaker 1: Hey, it's Alec Baldwin. This past season on my podcast

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Speaker 1: Here's the Thing, I spoke with more actors, musicians, policymakers,

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Speaker 1: and so many other fascinating people like actress and director

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Speaker 1: Cheryl Hines. They were looking for an unknown actress to

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Speaker 1: play Larry David's wife. I said, well, how old is

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Speaker 1: that guy? Isn't he old? Singer Kurt Smith from Tears

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Speaker 1: for Fears? You know, we have we had set up,

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Speaker 1: we have two lead singers, and I get asked, how

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Speaker 1: do you pick the songs? And It's like, to us,

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Speaker 1: it becomes very obvious. You know, if something demands vocal

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Speaker 1: acrobatics and power and in your face, that's going to

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Speaker 1: be Roland. Is something requires some touch of melancholio, slightly

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Speaker 1: younger song, or you really want to kind of listen,

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Speaker 1: that will be me. There's no songs we've ever done.

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Speaker 1: I don't think why we've both gone in and both

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Speaker 1: think we should do it. And actor and activist Lee A. Schreiber,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at these guys who are painters and custodians,

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Speaker 1: kissing their wives and children goodbye and getting on a

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Speaker 1: bus to go fight in a war, and I'm thinking,

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Speaker 1: could I say goodbye to my kids if I had to,

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Speaker 1: if I were in some existential fight for our homes

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Speaker 1: and our lives, and the answer was no, Like I

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Speaker 1: couldn't do that. Listen to the new season of Here's

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Speaker 1: the Thing on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.